Collar-pin



S. L. GEDNEY.

COLLAR PIN.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3. 1920.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

INVENTOR Jzn/Z Q /L WITNESSES ATTORNEYS STANLEY LINCOLN GEIDNEY, or MABLEWOOD NEWi JEnsEY.

COLLAR-rm.

emons.

- Application filed April 3, 1920. Serial No. 371,632. 2

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY L. GEDNEY, a citizen of the United'States, and a resident of Maplewood, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved CollarPin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in collar pins, and more particularly to pins which are positioned through soft collarsto hold the outer flaps or wings of the collar properly positioned.

A further object is to provide a collar pin which, when located in a collar, will be uniformly projected at its ends from both portions of the collar so that its appearance will be neat and attractive, and will remain in the position in which it is first located;

With collar pins, such as in ordinary use,

the pin has a tendency to project through one portion of the collar farther than through the other so that the pin assumes an ugly angle and the collar is improperly held and the neat and attractive appearance, which is necessary for such a device, is lackmg.

It is the purpose of my invention to provide a pin which will overcome the faults of pins as heretofore made and will insure its proper positioning in the collar.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be. more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improved collar pin in operative p s tion. 7

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the pin removed.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the pin.

Fig; 4 is an exaggerated transverse section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. I.

Fig. 5 is an. exaggerated transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is an exaggerated sectional elevation showing the enlargement on the pin.

1 represents an ordinary soft collar, and 2 a necktie positioned thereon. 3 represents my improved pin which is composed preferably of a single piece of wire, and while I preferably employ gold wire, it is obvious that the invention is not limited to the particular metal or material employed. The collar pin, as an entirety, has two rounded curved at one end, as shown at 4, and from.

this curved end an integral keeper 5 is projected and is slightly flared and recessed, as 7 shown at 6, to accommodate the sharp pointed end of the securing pin 7 which is made integral with the other end' of the wire. This securing pin is preferably of slightly less diameter than the main portion of the wire and at the point of juncture of the securing pin and themain portion of the wire I provide an annular enlargement-0r shoulder 8 and conveniently make this shoulder by decreasing the diameter of the securing pin and forcing such metal longitudinally of the securing pin to form the annular shoulder or enlargement 8. This operation is known in the trade as a swaging operation.

The enlargement 8 is spaced from the curved end 9 of the pin a distance equal to the distance from the end of the keeper 5 to the curved end 4, and while such stop orshoulder limits the movement of the securing pin through the collar, yet it also functions together with the end of the keeper 5 to form a pair of stops or shoulders to hold the pin properly positioned in the collar or the collar in the pin as the case may be, so

that the pin will be maintained at its ends uniformly spaced from the outer surface of the collar and will, therefore, present aneat and attractive appearance when in use.

7 Specification of Letters Patent. :Patnted Apr. 5, 1921. v

It is, of course, to be understood that the wire is sufliciently elastic so that'when in operative position, the pointed end of the securing pin 7 will be held by its own spring tension, or rather by the spring tension of the curved end portions 4 and 9, so that it cannot escape from the keeper until it is intentionally moved as is customary in the art.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from the invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but'consider myself at liberty to make such changes and al terations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim: I

A collar pin, comprising a single length of wire bent into the form of an oval in whichthe two longitudinal portions are substantially parallel when in normal position, forming a shoulder spaced from one end of a pin of less diameter than the main portion the oval a distance equal to the distance be- 10 of the wire and formed on one end of the tween the free end of the keeper and the wire, a keeper formed on the other end of other end of the oval, whereby when said the wire receiving the pointed end of the pin is in position in a collar, both ends of pin, and an integral annular enlargement on the oval will be projected equal distances the wire at the juncture of the pin with the from the outer face of the collar.

larger diameter of Wire, said enlargement STANLEY LINCOLN GEDNEY. 

